Recaps

Chi Qing and Lang Po revealed that they had used Gray Mist Pearls to gain power by killing their companions, then confronted the survivors in the circular stone hall. Wei Dao demanded that Wei Meng return with him for punishment, leaving the hall’s factions poised for conflict.

• Chi Qing killed a companion and absorbed his essence blood through the gray mist, then dismissed Qiang Feng’s condemnation and headed deeper into the passage.
• The survivors gathered in the circular stone hall, where Chi Qing concealed his gray mist and taunted Lang Po about the final stage.
• Lang Po crushed a Gray Mist Pearl and transformed into a monster, shocking Lang Xiaotian and the other survivors.
• Wei Dao demanded that Wei Meng return with him to face punishment at the ancestral hall.
• Chi Qing proposed that he, Lang Po, and Wei Dao join forces, but Wei Dao insisted that he only wanted Wei Meng.

Chi Qing’s proposal triggered a bloody fight in the stone hall, while Dongfang Yueming questioned the purpose of the trials. He concluded that the supposed second trial might actually be a final ritual intended to sacrifice everyone, leaving the survivors terrified.

• Lang Po attacked Lang Xiaotian, who crushed a gray mist bead and transformed into a monster to fight back.
• Chi Qing slaughtered the independent cultivators as Lang Po and Lang Xiaotian battled.
• Dongfang Yueming held back from intervening after Qiang Feng warned him that doing so would make him a target.
• Chi Qing turned to attack Dongfang Yueming, who questioned whether the second trial was truly meant to select candidates for the Battle of the Flood Dragon Gate.
• Dongfang Yueming suggested that the trial was either never meant to produce three winners or was actually the third trial, a bloody ritual requiring everyone’s lives as sacrifices.

Dongfang Yueming fused the Crimson Flame Fist Technique and Heaven-Overwhelming Palm into a new martial art, then exposed the Trial Valley master's scheme and killed him. He took an ancient manual and left the hall, suspecting the monsters’ families had knowingly traded their heirs’ lives for benefits.

• The master of Trial Valley appeared and declared that only the three people left standing could live.
• Dongfang Yueming spent his points to perfect the Crimson Flame Fist Technique and Heaven-Overwhelming Palm, then fused them into the Sea-Burning Raging Flame Palm.
• As the melee began, Dongfang Yueming explained that the trial was meant to leave three monsters as offerings, not three humans.
• Dongfang Yueming struck the black-robed old man, shattered his shield, and killed him with a second palm.
• Dongfang Yueming searched the corpse, took an ancient manual, and left the hall while suspecting the monsters’ families had known the truth about Trial Valley.

After Dongfang Yueming escaped the Trial Valley, the Nirvana Sect and the three great sects branded him a villain and issued a region-wide wanted notice. He decided to return to the Great Xia Dynasty and challenge its surrounding sects, while the missing Gao Hu slaughtered three patrolmen and used their blood essence to reach Qi Refining Realm Perfection.

• Dongfang Yueming fled as three Martial Dao Grandmasters arrived, and Wei Meng told them he had killed the black-robed Nirvana Sect deacon.
• Three days later, the three great sects issued a wanted notice accusing Dongfang Ri of massacring geniuses and offering rewards for his capture or death.
• Dongfang Yueming read the notice in a remote tavern, decided to return to the Great Xia Dynasty and the Earth Spirit Sect, and planned to gain strength by challenging nearby sects.
• Gao Hu ambushed and killed three Qi Refining Realm patrolmen, then used a strange piece of iron to absorb their blood essence.
• Gao Hu absorbed the patrolmen's blood essence, broke through to Qi Refining Realm Perfection, and believed the Internal Force Realm was within reach.

Dongfang Yueming boarded a return voyage from the Cloud Water Dynasty to the Great Xia Dynasty, keeping his identity and strength concealed. After a smooth start to the journey, a sea Ferocious Beast horde appeared, leaving the boat’s passengers facing an imminent threat.

• Dongfang Yueming waited to board while members of the Bai family cut ahead of the line and insulted the other travelers.
• Dongfang Yueming boarded the colossal boat, and a Grandmaster warned passengers against fighting as the return voyage began.
• During the first three uneventful days, a Qi Refining martial artist tried to befriend Dongfang Yueming and warned him about the Bai family’s strength.
• An urgent alarm rang, and the passengers saw a sea Ferocious Beast horde surging toward the boat.

Dongfang Yueming and the martial artists aboard the ship fought off a swarm of Black-Scaled Sea Serpents, but a Purple-Horned Demon Serpent emerged from the depths and threatened the entire ship. The chapter ended as the Grandmaster and everyone on deck faced the demonic beast’s overwhelming presence.

• The ship’s Grandmaster ordered all martial artists at the Qi Refining Realm or above to defend against the approaching sea serpent swarm, and Wang Pangzi asked Dongfang Yueming to watch each other’s backs.
• The Black-Scaled Sea Serpents attacked the ship, and the martial artists fought them off as Bai Feng redirected a serpent toward Wang Pangzi.
• Dongfang Yueming saved Wang Pangzi by killing the serpent with a two-finger strike, then gave Bai Feng a calm, warning look.
• Black-Scaled Savage Serpents joined the fight, and Bai Zhanxiong battled them while Bai Feng boasted about his father’s strength.
• As the defenders began to push back the swarm, Dongfang Yueming sensed something wrong and saw the Grandmaster watching the depths.
• A Purple-Horned Demon Serpent rose from beneath the ship, shaking it with its immense aura and overwhelming everyone on deck.

A Purple-Horned Demon Serpent attacked the ship, and the resident Grandmaster was badly injured when its mental attack left him open to a counterstrike. Dongfang Yueming intervened and wounded the serpent, allowing the Grandmaster to drive it away; the ship’s passengers survived, while the Grandmaster wondered who Dongfang Yueming was and why he was traveling to the remote continent.

• The Purple-Horned Demon Serpent attacked the ship, and the Grandmaster confronted it with his Mountain and River Sword Intent.
• The serpent used Mental Intimidation to disrupt the Grandmaster, then struck him onto the deck and left him wounded.
• Dongfang Yueming approached the Grandmaster and struck the serpent with his Sea-Burning Raging Flame Palm, severely damaging it.
• The Grandmaster followed up with Mountain and River Break, but the serpent escaped into the sea using Water Escape.
• The passengers cheered as the danger passed, and the Grandmaster thanked Dongfang Yueming and asked about his journey.
• Dongfang Yueming sat down to rest without answering, leaving the Grandmaster curious about his identity and purpose.

After the battle, Bai Zhanxiong and Bai Feng suspected Dongfang Yueming was the wanted fugitive Dongfang Ri and considered how to deal with him. Dongfang Yueming ignored their plotting and planned to use his points to perfect both force condensation methods the next day.

• Bai Zhanxiong and Bai Feng recognized Dongfang Yueming's water-and-fire Martial Dao True Intent and suspected he was the wanted Dongfang Ri.
• Bai Feng urged his father to act against Dongfang Yueming, but Bai Zhanxiong decided to wait until the ship was safer and strike without warning.
• Bai Zhanxiong told Bai Feng that his own first-level-perfected inner force could let him hold Dongfang Yueming off, though he might not win a direct clash.
• Dongfang Yueming reviewed his system panel and concluded that his Sea-Burning Raging Flame Palm had exceeded his expectations.
• Dongfang Yueming planned to spend his points to perfect both force condensation methods the next day.

Dongfang Yueming advised Wang Pangzi on his sword technique, then used the system to perfect two force-condensation methods and fuse them into the Sea-Burning Force Condensation Method. With his Inner Force at its legendary limit, he set his sights on the Earth Spirit Sect after returning to Great Xia.

• Wang Pangzi thanked Dongfang Yueming for saving his life and asked him for advice about his Wind-Chasing Sword Technique.
• Dongfang Yueming told Wang Pangzi to focus on a steady foundation and directing his true qi into his sword, helping him loosen his cultivation bottleneck.
• An attendant told Dongfang Yueming that the Grandmaster had arranged a room for him on the ship's upper level, while Bai Feng watched resentfully.
• The next morning, Dongfang Yueming spent system points to perfect the Heaven-Overwhelming Force Condensation Method and the Red Flame Force Condensation Method.
• The Origin Page fused the two techniques into the Sea-Burning Force Condensation Method, bringing Dongfang Yueming's Inner Force to its legendary limit.
• Dongfang Yueming resolved to pursue a Grandmaster technique and begin with the Earth Spirit Sect when he returned to Great Xia.

Bai Zhanxiong and Bai Feng asked the Grandmaster to help capture the man they suspected was Dongfang Ri, but he left the Bai family to act alone. Realizing the Grandmaster intended to use them to test their target, Bai Zhanxiong decided to attack in three days near the reef-strewn waters.

• Bai Feng urged Bai Zhanxiong to act before the ship reached the remote continent, fearing their target was growing stronger.
• Bai Feng and Bai Zhanxiong told the Grandmaster that the man might be Dongfang Ri and asked him to help capture the wanted criminal.
• The Grandmaster told Bai Zhanxiong to gather the Bai family's Inner Force experts and handle the capture themselves.
• Bai Zhanxiong concluded that the Grandmaster meant to use the Bai family to gauge their target's strength and claim the advantage afterward.
• Bai Zhanxiong resolved to attack in three days near the reef-strewn waters, and Bai Feng agreed.

Dongfang Yueming was ambushed aboard a ship by Bai Zhanxiong and the Bai family, who mistook him for the wanted man Dongfang Ri. He killed the attackers with the Sea-Burning Raging Flame Palm and Red Flame Hand, leaving Bai Feng and the watching passengers frozen in shock.

• Bai Zhanxiong led Bai family experts onto the deck and ordered the other passengers away.
• A Bai family elder identified Dongfang Yueming as Dongfang Ri and attacked him with the elders surrounding him.
• Dongfang Yueming unleashed the Sea-Burning Raging Flame Palm, wiping out the Bai family elders in one strike.
• Bai Zhanxiong attacked Dongfang Yueming with his Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer while Bai Feng watched from hiding.
• Dongfang Yueming advanced Red Flame Hand through Point Allocation and killed Bai Zhanxiong with a single palm, leaving Bai Feng and the passengers stunned.

Dongfang Yueming subdued the Grandmaster and killed Bai Feng, then acquired the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer true intent diagram. The next morning, he perfected Red Flame Hand and fused it with Sea-Burning Raging Flame Palm to create the Yin-Yang Sea-Burning Record, leaving him suspecting another water-attribute art could trigger a further transformation.

• The Grandmaster apologized to Dongfang Yueming and, fearing his background, handed Bai Feng over to him.
• Dongfang Yueming killed Bai Feng, and the Grandmaster withdrew after promising to keep his subordinates in line.
• Dongfang Yueming found the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer true intent diagram in Bai Zhanxiong's ashes and learned the martial art.
• The next morning, Dongfang Yueming spent 2,000 points to raise Red Flame Hand to perfection.
• Dongfang Yueming fused Red Flame Hand with Sea-Burning Raging Flame Palm and gained the Yin-Yang Sea-Burning Record.
• Dongfang Yueming suspected that fusing another water-attribute true intent martial art might bring about a true metamorphosis.

After the Bai family's destruction, Yi Hao of the Yi family asked Dongfang Yueming to trade the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer true intent diagram for the family's water-attribute Grandmaster art, the Sea-Overturning Seal. As the ship neared Cold Wind City, Dongfang perfected the hammer art and accepted an Yi family guest elder token, planning to visit the Jiao Clan before calling on the Yi family.

• Yi Hao bribed Wang Pangzi to arrange a meeting with Dongfang Yueming and requested the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer true intent diagram.
• Dongfang agreed to exchange the diagram for the Yi family's Sea-Overturning Seal and considered visiting the Jiao Clan in Cold Wind City.
• As the ship approached Cold Wind City, Dongfang spent points to raise the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer to perfection.
• Yi Hao invited Dongfang to stay with the Yi family, and Dongfang declined for now, accepted a guest elder token, and said he would visit after handling private matters.

After the giant ship returned to Cold Wind City, Jiao Yu'er waited at the dock and clashed with Hong Tao, who planned to use his family's alliance and the Bai family's lightning inheritance to pressure her. Just as Hong Tao moved to seize her, a man in a bamboo hat appeared and stopped his attack.

• The giant ship returned to Cold Wind City, and the martial artists aboard disembarked.
• Jiao Yu'er waited at the dock, hoping to see how Dongfang Yueming was doing.
• Hong Tao told Jiao Yu'er that the Hong family had allied with the Bai family and intended to win the Yi family over with a lightning-attribute Grandmaster inheritance.
• Hong Tao tried to seize Jiao Yu'er, but she struck him with her palm and he overpowered her.
• A man in a bamboo hat appeared between Hong Tao and Jiao Yu'er and casually blocked Hong Tao's next attack.

Dongfang Yueming killed Hong Tao with one finger while protecting Jiao Yu'er, then left with her for the Jiao Clan. At the Hong family estate, Hong Batian learned that the Bai family had been slaughtered and that his son was dead, and he led his men to demand that the Jiao Clan hand over the killer.

• Dongfang Yueming stopped Hong Tao from attacking Jiao Yu'er and shattered his arm and organs with one finger, killing him.
• Jiao Yu'er warned Dongfang Yueming that the Hong family would seek revenge, but he said he was not worried unless an extraordinary Grandmaster appeared.
• Dongfang Yueming and Jiao Yu'er left the dock and headed for the Jiao Clan.
• A scout told Hong Batian that the Bai family had been slaughtered by a mysterious heaven's chosen from the Central Continent.
• A servant reported that a young man in a conical hat had killed Hong Tao and left with Jiao Yu'er.
• Hong Batian assumed the Jiao Clan was not responsible and led his men to demand that it hand over Dongfang Yueming.

The Jiao Clan debated how to survive the Hong family's alliance with the Bai family when news arrived that Dongfang Yueming had killed Hong Tao. Jiao Zhenhai summoned Jiao Yu'er and Dongfang Yueming to the meeting hall, where the clan's response awaited them.

• An elder reported that the Hong family had allied with the Bai family, leaving the Jiao Clan facing the Yi family's support for the Hong family.
• Jiao Yu'er arrived with Dongfang Yueming and tried to enter the residence to report something important, but Jiao Zhenhai ordered her to wait.
• A guard announced that Dongfang Yueming had killed Hong Tao with a single finger at the docks and had returned with Jiao Yu'er.
• Jiao Zhenhai blamed Jiao Xiaotian and ordered the guards to bring Jiao Yu'er and Dongfang Yueming into the meeting hall.
• Jiao Yu'er sensed danger and tried to leave, but Dongfang Yueming reassured her, and they followed the guard inside.

Yi Zhengyang learned that Dongfang Yueming had destroyed the Bai family and offered the Yi family a chance to obtain the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer’s true intent diagram. The Yi family’s ancestor decided to welcome Dongfang while secretly planning to capture him, as Yi Tianlei dismissed the danger he posed.

• Yi Hao told Yi Zhengyang that the Bai family had been wiped out aboard the returning boat and described his deal with Dongfang Yueming for the Sea-Overturning Seal in exchange for the lightning-attribute true intent diagram.
• Yi Hao revealed that Dongfang Yueming was wanted by the Nirvana Sect, frightening Yi Zhengyang.
• The Yi family’s ancestor ordered the family to honor Dongfang as a distinguished guest, while privately planning to capture him and claim the Nirvana Sect’s reward.
• Yi Zhengyang told Yi Tianlei that the family would soon obtain the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer’s true intent diagram.
• Yi Tianlei scorned Dongfang’s strength, while Yi Hao silently recalled the terrifying power he had witnessed.

Dongfang Yueming faced the Jiao Clan ancestor, whose probing revealed that Yueming's martial intent could rival and even suppress his own. After learning that Hongxiu was in the powerful Love Palace and that reaching Innate Physique could let him bring her back, Yueming left determined to grow stronger, while the Hong family arrived demanding the killer.

• Dongfang Yueming entered the Jiao Clan council hall and took responsibility for killing Hong Tao, while the clan head and elders avoided confronting him after failing to sense his cultivation.
• Jiao Xiaotian revealed that the Jiao Clan ancestor had once ordered a treasure given to Dongfang Yueming, and Yueming left the hall with Jiao Yu'er following him.
• The Jiao Clan ancestor confronted Dongfang Yueming, but Yueming's true intent overwhelmed the ancestor's Sea-Suppressing True Intent and left Jiao Yu'er injured by their clash.
• The ancestor explained that Hongxiu was likely in the Love Palace and that a man who reached Innate Physique and passed its trials could bring his loved one away.
• Dongfang Yueming left resolved to reach Innate Physique, and the ancestor told Jiao Zhenhai to let the Hong family come take the killer themselves.

Dongfang Yueming entered the Yi family’s residence, where Yi Zhengyang tried to pressure him into trading the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer diagram for the Sea-Overturning Seal. When Hong Batian arrived seeking the man who had killed his son, Yi Zhengyang joined forces with him against Dongfang Yueming, while the Jiao Clan’s patriarch revealed that Dongfang Yueming could contend with a Grandmaster.

• Hong Batian demanded that the Jiao Clan hand over his son’s killer, then learned that the man had entered the Yi family’s residence.
• Yi Zhengyang welcomed Dongfang Yueming and hosted a banquet where the Yi family pressed him to trade the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer diagram for the Sea-Overturning Seal.
• Hong Batian arrived at the Yi residence looking for his son’s killer, and Yi Zhengyang confirmed that the man and the diagram were there.
• Yi Zhengyang and Hong Batian agreed to join forces against Dongfang Yueming and share the diagram afterward.
• Jiao Yu'er worried about Dongfang Yueming, and the Jiao Clan’s patriarch told her that Dongfang Yueming could contend with a Grandmaster.

Dongfang Yueming faced the Hong and Yi families at the Yi residence, where the Yi family patriarch tried to seize his cultivation technique and true intent diagram. Dongfang Yueming killed the Yi patriarch with his perfected Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer, leaving the hall stunned as the Jiao and Hong patriarchs raced toward the residence.

• The Jiao Clan patriarch planned to let Hong Batian test Dongfang Yueming, then use the conflict to gain Dongfang Yueming's favor and destroy the Hong family.
• Hong Batian and Yi Zhengyang confronted Dongfang Yueming at the Yi family banquet hall and demanded revenge and the Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer diagram.
• The Yi family patriarch appeared and ordered his elders to capture Dongfang Yueming alive, but Dongfang Yueming vaporized them with the Yin-Yang Sea-Burning Record.
• The Yi family patriarch attacked with the Sea-Overturning Seal, and Dongfang Yueming countered with the perfected Lightning Prison Star-Shattering Hammer.
• Dongfang Yueming's lightning shattered the Yi patriarch's seal and reduced him to ash, while the Hong and Jiao patriarchs sensed the clash and rushed to the Yi residence.

Dongfang Yueming killed the Yi family’s ancestor and core members, then learned and perfected the Sea-Overturning Seal, which fused with the Yin-Yang Sea-Burning Record into the Two Aspects Seal. The Jiao Clan’s ancestor and the Hong family’s ancestor arrived at the ruined residence and found him standing among the bodies.

• Dongfang Yueming killed the Yi family’s ancestor and forced Yi Zhengyang to hand over the family’s Grandmaster techniques and the Sea-Overturning Seal.
• Dongfang Yueming killed Hong Batian and the surviving Yi family core members, then took the Yi family’s Inner Force cultivation technique.
• Dongfang Yueming used points to perfect the Sea-Overturning Seal, triggering its fusion with the Yin-Yang Sea-Burning Record.
• Dongfang Yueming gained the Two Aspects Seal and sensed the Jiao Clan’s ancestor and the Hong family’s ancestor approaching.
• The two ancestors arrived at the Yi family residence, saw the corpses and Dongfang Yueming, and realized the Yi family had been wiped out.

Dongfang Yueming forced the Hong family and Jiao Clan patriarchs to trade their Grandmaster methods for the Yi family's inheritance, then fused the acquired cultivation methods into a new technique. On the road back to the Great Xia Dynasty, he used points to advance the Yi family's Grandmaster method and broke through to Martial Dao Grandmaster.

• The Hong family patriarch abandoned his plan to avenge his family after realizing Dongfang Yueming had killed Old Ghost Yi, and the Jiao Clan patriarch became wary of him.
• Dongfang Yueming asked the Hong family and Jiao Clan patriarchs to exchange their Grandmaster methods for the Yi family's methods, and both agreed.
• The Hong family and Jiao Clan patriarchs personally handed Dongfang Yueming their inheritance jade slips, and he left Cold Wind City.
• On the road back to the Great Xia Dynasty, Dongfang Yueming studied the three families' methods and fused them with the Sea-Burning Force Condensation Method to create the Two Aspects Return to One Force.
• Dongfang Yueming spent 1,000 points to raise the Sea-Overturning Spirit Gathering Method to beginner level and broke through to Martial Dao Grandmaster.

Dongfang Yueming returned to the Great Xia Dynasty as a Grandmaster and learned that martial artists were being killed in an Ash Demon calamity. After meeting Li Yue, he secretly transformed her cultivation before disappearing.

• Dongfang Yueming reached the entry level of the Grandmaster Realm, saw that his daily points had risen to 1,000, and set out for the Great Xia Dynasty.
• Dongfang Yueming returned to the Great Xia border and learned that martial artists were being drained of their essence blood and reduced to ashes, in a calamity resembling one from the Great Qi Dynasty.
• Liu Yu celebrated his standing at the Great Xia Martial Arts Academy and privately recalled that he had secretly poisoned Wu Daozi to death.
• Dongfang Yueming met Li Yue, who told him about the missing martial artists and revealed that she had reached Bone Tempering Greater Mastery.
• Dongfang Yueming touched Li Yue between the eyebrows, raising her cultivation to Bone Forging Realm perfection and giving her improved cultivation methods before vanishing.

Dongfang Yueming discovered that the Gao Family had collapsed after Gao Long led its experts away, while Li Xuan arrived at the Great Xia Martial Arts Academy seeking the other fragment of a spirit treasure. Li Xuan planned to use its power to locate the person who held that fragment.

• Dongfang Yueming learned that Gao Long and nearly all the Gao Family's experts had vanished, and that Gao Hu had disappeared earlier.
• Dongfang Yueming connected Gao Hu's disappearance to the bizarre murders in the Great Xia Dynasty and formed a troubling suspicion.
• Yue Tao and Xi Feng arrived at the Great Xia Martial Arts Academy and drew attention by displaying their Blood Replacement Realm cultivation.
• Xi Feng introduced Li Xuan as a candidate to become the Earth Spirit Sect's future sect master.
• Li Xuan sensed that the other spirit treasure fragment was in the Great Xia Dynasty and waited for its holder to reveal their location.

Gao Hu reached the Internal Force Realm and learned from the iron fragment that another holder of the Bloodthirsty Awl had arrived in Great Xia. The fragment urged him to lure the holder to him and kill him, and Gao Hu agreed to begin.

• Gao Hu awoke after reaching the Internal Force Realm and believed he had surpassed Gao Long.
• The iron fragment warned Gao Hu that the Central Continent held powers far beyond the martial world he knew.
• The iron fragment revealed that it belonged to the Bloodthirsty Awl, a spirit treasure of the Blood Refining Sect, and that another fragment holder had arrived in Great Xia.
• The iron fragment said the other holder was at the Great Xia Martial Arts Academy and had not yet reached the Grandmaster Realm.
• Gao Hu agreed to let the iron fragment activate its power so the other holder would sense it and come to them.